Nicolay is set to release a new instrumental album City Lights Vol. 2, a sequel to the 2005 edition. The CD drops September 15 on Foreign Exchange Music/Hard Boiled, and the digital version is available now at online retailers. However, … Continue reading →

Nicolay and Phonte have finished their follow-up to 2004’s near classic Connected. It’s called Leave It All Behind and it drops October 14 on Hard Boiled Records, the label responsible for Nicolay’s The Dutch Masters Vol. 1 mixtape. (The digital … Continue reading →

Set for release on February 12, Nicolay & Kay’s Time:Lineis the first full-length album from Nicolay Music Recordings, an imprint the producer formed earlier this year. Groove Attack will distribute the disc. It features guest shots from Oh No, members of the Strange Fruit Project and Chip Fu from the Fu-Schnickens (!), among other talented prospects found in Nicolay’s adopted home of Wilmington, North Carolina. Time:Line is reportedly a concept album, but I’m not sure what the concept is — other than, when it comes to the deeply soulful Nicolay, it will probably involve romantic love.

Time:Line is the first of several projects Nicolay plans for the near future. Others include sequels to his popular mixtape The Dutch Mastersand the instrumental City Lights, and a mixtape with DJ Rhettmatic. No word yet, however, on when fans will hear the new Foreign Exchange project, Leave It All Behind, other than to expect it next year.

Before we get ahead ourselves, though, let’s enjoy the new Time:Line album. The track listing is below.

Nicolay Here BBE Whether as a metaphor to the fact that Netherlands producer Nicolay has “made it” in the music world, or an allusion to his recent move to North Carolina, for the listener, Here is not always where you … Continue reading →